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Dr. Margaret Diddams on "What Fyodor Dostoevsky Taught Me about Marketplace Innovation"
Read MoreWhat and How We Believe - Keith L. Johnson, Co-Director, CFI
Read MoreVocational Wisdom in Confessions: An Interview with Dr. Greg Lee and Dr. Sarah Borden
In this interview with Drs. Sarah Borden and Greg Lee, we explore Augustine’s personal vocational path in Confessions, this year’s Core Book, and draw out insights for our own work with students.
Read More(Un)Health and Vocation: A CFI Interview with the Student Care and Services Team
Ben Norquist, the CFI Managing Director, interviewed the Student Care and Services Team recently about the relationship between students’ health and their vocational formation.
Read MoreLooking to the Future of Work
A level of uncertainty is often felt by college students and their parents when thinking about the future of work, and it isn't just a general fear of change--they wonder about the stability of the future they are working so hard to achieve.
Read MoreVocation as Preposition
Is vocation more like a noun or a verb? This post reflects on Kathleen Cahalan's new take on the kinds of words we use when we think about vocation.
Read MoreIn and Through the Job You Have: Joining God in the Work He's Already Doing
"What job/career/occupation does God want me to have?" It's a fair question, and an important one if you're in the high-pressure process of looking for a job.
Read MoreRedemptive Entrepreneurship and the Liberal Arts
Grant Hensel '15 is from Chicago and studied business/economics at Wheaton College. Grant is the founder and CEO of the RoundUp App. In this MyWheaton blog post, Grant reflects on his experience this past summer as an Emerging Founder with Praxis.
Read MoreHer Galloping Commitment
Dorothy L. Sayers was so passionate about vocation that her friend C. S. Lewis once wrote her “Hey! Whoa!” in response. Her galloping commitment to “Christian work” – which for her potentially included all work – developed out of life experiences.
Read MoreBenediction
In this brief, TED-style video, Dr. Vince Bacote takes the idea of "benediction" and applies it to our work in a pluralistic world.
Read MoreThe Integrated Life: Where Formation Meets Vocation
This edition of On Vocation takes us to the intersection of spiritual formation and vocation, highlighting a significant finding in the College’s recent alumni survey and peeking under the hood of Opus’s Staff & Faculty Vocation Seminar.
Read MoreFrom "The Call" to "On Call"
Opus Director Chris Armstrong makes the case for the critical importance of seeing calling as plural rather than singular—we all have multiple callings at any given time, and they change over time.
Read MoreWhy Skills Trump Passion
This issue features a chapel talk video on "why students should not follow their passions" along with a short summary and reflection questions. The talk was given in October 2016 by Bethany Jenkins from Kings College.
Read MoreKey Vocation Ideas: A Guide for the Perplexed
"It takes a college" to form a student vocationally, and it helps if we work from a common language and narrative about vocation. For a peek into Opus's common vocational language, look at this handy table and brief narrative.
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